Diana Nyad finally made it. On her fifth attempt, the 64-year-old became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. Nyad staggered onto a Key West beach Monday to cheers ...

Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad made history by completing the first swim from Cuba to Florida without the aid of a shark cage. Exhausted and sunburnt, she spoke briefly upon her arrival in Key West.

For retired athlete Diana Nyad, however, these were the very challenges she faced during the several attempts she made, in her early 60s, to become the first person to swim the 110 miles from Cuba ...

which goes a long way towards explaining why voters gravitated towards both Annette Bening's and Jodie Foster's strong performances as Diana Nyad and her close friend, swim coach, and lover Bonnie ...

a 110-mile open ocean swim from Cuba to Florida. It co-stars Rhys Ifans as Nyad’s chief navigator on her quest, John Bartlett, as well as Anna Harriette Pittman as the young version of Diana ...